Here's a grand that I'll have to spend for someone to come fix this."

I did pay a grand for a good website for design and hosting for a year.

reading between the lines if your not very well cashed up.. as in you have ATLEAST 12 to 18 months of mortgage payments plus money to do the fix up after the tenant moves out... even clean tenants there is usually a grand or two ... then subject too is not something you personally qualify for. as your realizing its a ut oh what happens when... well what happens when your tenant flakes takes a few months to get them out etc etc you HAVE to continue to pay the mortgage the tax's the insurance the UTLS  and put money into the house so it can be rented or sold again..

It's just not part of my grand strategy.

Your best bet is to find a property at wholesale price, either buy from a wholesaler or do your own wholesaling/marketing campaign, which is something I am starting doing nowI'll be starting my own wholesale/marketing campaign in Rialto, Colton, Bloomington, and Grand Terrace.

Louis (2.9) and four at 3.0, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis and Kansas City."

Lots of laughing and good discussions.Life is grand, isn;t it?

Hey there, fellow Grand Forks, North Dakota residents!

Pretty standard.My concerns with his funds have been that the funds mainly buy top-market assets at (seemingly) top-market prices, and the investor returns are really not great, in the grand scheme of things.

I'm very new to all of this so I only have 1 deal and it's my best one :) My wife and I bought our first home, a townhouse just outside of Nashville.Paid $137,500Remodeled and replaced HVAC for $15,000Reappraised for $165,000Got a HELOC for $12,500Purchased a new $300,000 house 10 miles from downtown with the Heloc as the down payment.Our mortgage/escrow/HOA on the original house is $1,000We rented the house to a family for $1,550.2 years later it's valued at $200,000.We just expanded our HELOC by $20,000 to help us purchase a mobile home park that has a $400-500k upsideOur current house value has grown $25-35k.Pretty sweet deal for a grand total of about $25k original investment to create all the above deals.